Top Hairdresser Training Courses for Autumn/Winter 2011

Get up to speed with the latest trends and techniques with pick of Autumn/Winter 2011′s hairdressing training courses.

Affinage

Course: Colour Correction Workshop

Content: Provides the in-depth knowledge and practical skills required to achieve effective results with optimum condition using Affinage products. The workshop demonstrates the use of Eraser and Infiniti Pre-Pigmentation Gel/Spray in relation to colour correction methods.

Student profile: Delegates should have a good knowledge of colour theory.

Content: Explore the latest techniques including scissor/clipper-over-comb, blending and fading, and beard and moustache trimming. Be transformed within a working week into a true ‘Men’s hairdresser’ via a mixture of comprehensive practical and demonstration work.

Content: New, hands-on course designed to help stylists capitalise on the boom in the men’s sector. Presented by one of the American Crew ‘All Stars’ education team, the aim is to encourage stylists of all abilities to try different techniques, develop new skills and build confidence. The creation of three different haircuts will develop scissor, razor and progressive freehand clipper techniques.

Content: Foundation through to advanced course focusing on magazine and fashion looks. A combination of demonstrations and workshops teach different approaches to dressing hair. Benefit from furthering your artistic ability and knowledge of fashion styling techniques.

Student profile: Minimum one year experience on the salon floor required.

Content: Designed to showcase and demonstrate the colours, styles and techniques used by the La Biosthetique team to create this season’s inspirational looks from start to finish. During the workshop you will be guided through three distinct trend looks by a member of the UK artistic team, using both classic foiling and progressive colour application techniques.

Content: Under Tracey Devine’s guidance, learn how to identify key trends before they happen and translate them into clients’ lifestyles and your business blueprint. This course will encourage and inspire you to become a confident and complete hairdresser by turning trends into profit.

Content: Run by the Alan Howard educational team, this course covers essential knowledge for providing a professional service using Fudge colours, exploring the science, features and benefits, mixing and removal, and the presentation of models. The day consists of theory and practical work. A model is required.

Content: Intensive course offering a combination of inspired learning and personal development, to encourage creativity and business skills and industry inspirations, as well as honing other talents. Benefit from exposure to the expert technical and business skills essential to running a successful salon; and acquire the knowledge to coach and develop your team into colour experts.

Content: Designed to develop creative vision, this advanced colour course derives inspiration from the worlds of fashion, textiles, art and the media. Taught by HJ’s 2010 Schwarzkopf Professional British Colour Technician of the Year, Christel Lundqvist, this course is for technicians looking to improve their creative fashion skills.

Student profile: Three to four years’ experience and a full understanding of fundamental colour theory required.

Content: Run by the education teams of Joico’s UK distributors, Alan Howard and Lacey’s, this course is for experienced hairdressers wishing to explore and master new techniques in cutting and colouring at the forefront of current trends.

This seminar provides the skills, confidence, motivation and know-how essential to creating these looks on your own clients.

Student profile: NVQ Level 1, 2 and above.

Duration: Day course

Location: Wolverhampton, Leeds (Alan Howard) and Reading (Lacey’s)

Dates: 5, 19, 24 September

Cost: from £125+VAT

Contact: Alan Howard, 01614 290794. Lacey’s, 0118 930 2338

KMS California

Course: Women’s Foundations

Content: The core KMS cutting system offering a comprehensive and technical approach to the three ways to cut hair: one length, graduation and layering. Learning Foundations’ theory and terminology will unlock new creative doors.

Aimed at new or experienced stylists wanting to sharpen their skills, the philosophy of this hands-on workshop is about ”working smarter, not harder”.

Student profile: NVQ Level 2-3, new stylists, or those looking to sharpen their skills.

Content: The H3 cutting and styling collection has a strong educational foundation that you’ll be able to take back to the salon to share with your team members and one that you’ll easily be able to introduce to your clients. The course emphasis is on shared inspiration and practical involvement. Students take away a diploma, workbook and tuition mannequin as rewards for their endeavours.

Content: What makes a hairdressing photographic collection win awards? What sets it apart? Errol Douglas and Collections of Excellence show how an award-winning collection is created – the thought processes and the sources of inspiration, and of course the meaning behind the final collections. Select looks will be deconstructed and taught by a step-by-step process.

Content: One-day, hands-on workshops that celebrate cut, colour, style and texture. These events are streamlined to be fully focused on education in a workshop-style format. As with all hands-on classes, the attendees will have the opportunity to learn and practice new technical haircuts, apply colour, discover texture techniques and learn new tricks, they will finish with a style on their mannequin head to take back to the salon to use as a “3D look book” with their guests.

Content: A theory and practical format provides the perfect platform for tapping in to the affluent mature market. Blending creativity and commercial looks, Andrew Barton shares the secrets of classy styles helping to turn back the clock for older clients.

Content: The Saks artistic team share their ideas and inspiration in a comprehensive package of workshops and demonstrations covering four female cuts, three colour methods and three men’s cuts – each reflecting current trends and exploring the translation of catwalk looks to quick and usable salon techniques.

Content: Opportunity for intensive immersion into the Sassoon ethos of hair design for those eager to experience education in cut and colour at every level. The teaching and learning philosophy for this diploma course has been developed in the form of a pyramid, with a focus on building the foundations of the craft to the pinnacle of creativity.

Content: Fashion-forward odyssey for experienced hairdressers wishing to advance their creative work to the next level. Each student is taken on a journey of intense learning that will inspire and develop their cut and colour skills, guiding them through asymmetry and disconnection and high-impact colour techniques.

Content: For serious stylists looking to gain the edge, this is your chance to bring along your own model and see how hair for the catwalk comes together. Dom Capel, UK creative style artist, provides an expert’s overview on the world of session styling, and how a clothes stylist and make-up artist perfect a photo shoot finish.

Student profile: Hairdressers who enjoy the artistic side of the profession and want to understand the skill behind styling for the catwalk and camera.

Content: All-inclusive training programme designed to develop the craft into an art, with explanations for every cut required in your daily work. The course defines techniques, sectioning patterns and weight distribution, providing full knowledge of the fundamental shapes of the haircuts that formulate every hairstyle.

Student profile: All qualified hairdressers wanting to improve their techniques.

Content: Drawing on the expertise of a session team with experience of working on more than 70 London Fashion Week shows a year, this flexible course explores the fundamentals through to creative freedom, providing an invaluable insight into session hairdressing.

The course includes an overview of key trends and techniques showcased at the latest London Fashion Week shows; plus long hair techniques.

Student profile: Qualified stylist with an understanding of dressing hair.

Content: A fun course educating stylists in methods of cutting with clippers. An inspirational change from cutting with scissors, all demonstrations consist of both men’s and women’s haircuts and students are given the opportunity to practice the skills learnt on the course on mannequins and live models.

Content: Get together with the hottest talent from some of the world’s leading salons.

The art teams are the renowned trendsetters for the industry and in this course they showcase their latest cutting and colouring ideas. These are exciting, quick-fire sessions, crackling with creative energy within a demo/workshop format.

Student profile: Hairdressers who want to be inspired in the latest cutting and colouring trends.